# Family and Consumer Studies (FCS) courses

Evergreen Valley College · 2025-2026 Catalog · 3 courses

Source: https://catalog.evc.edu/course-descriptions-information/course-descriptions/fcs/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026.

### FCS 019 — Nutrition

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **C-ID:** NUTR 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/fcs.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: 2
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course provides students an introduction to scientific concepts of nutrition, including physiological, psychological and sociological considerations. Students will analyze the human diet in relation to health, lifestyle choices, personal behaviors, and disease prevention. Individual recommended nutrient intake, the body's use of nutrients, and optimum dietary health across the lifespan will be discussed. Students will also examine the influence of culture, food supply, food choices, and nutritional status, as well as socioeconomic conditions, food fads, and diet fallacies.

### FCS 050 — Life Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

Life Management provides students with the skills to reach their educational, individual, and career goals. The course introduces students to strategies, techniques, and management tools that lead to success. The course explores day-to-day resources including time, energy, and money. Major topics include value clarification, goal setting, decision making, problem solving, effective study techniques, time management, health, money management, education and career planning, communication and listening skills along with conflict management and managing stress.

### FCS 070 — Child Development

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **C-ID:** CDEV 100
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/fcs.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This introductory course examines the major physical, social and emotional, and cognitive/language developmental milestones for children, both typical and atypical, from conception through adolescence. There will be an emphasis on interactions between maturational processes and environmental factors. While studying developmental theory and investigative research methodologies, students will observe children, evaluate individual differences and analyze characteristics of development at various stages.